AI Visits

A live fetch is an AI assistant opening your page right now because a user asked something, for example ChatGPT-User or Perplexity-User. It is the strongest signal of real demand. Search crawl is bots indexing your pages so AI search and answer engines can cite them, for example OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot. Training crawl is bots collecting pages to train AI models, for example GPTBot or ClaudeBot. It does not send traffic directly, but it shapes what models know about you.

Most AI crawlers and assistants do not run JavaScript, so tag-based analytics like Google Analytics never record them. Cloudflare sees every request at the edge, which is why AI Visits reads from your Cloudflare analytics instead of a tracking script.

Open AI Visits on a Brand, create a Cloudflare API token with Zone Read and Analytics Read (AI Crawl Control Read is recommended), and paste it in. The guide in Rankscale links to a prefilled token template. Setup takes seconds. Rankscale then imports about 30 days of history and syncs new visits once a day, shortly after midnight UTC. You do not add any code to your site.

Yes. AI Visits currently reads from Cloudflare, so your domain needs to be proxied through Cloudflare. Any Cloudflare plan works, including the free plan.

Rankscale imports grouped visit counts per day, bot, category, and page path. It does not store visitor IP addresses, and the connection is read-only. The Cloudflare token is encrypted at rest and you can disconnect at any time.

Rankscale syncs new visits from Cloudflare once a day, shortly after midnight UTC, and corrects the previous two days in the same run. For an immediate update, Refresh connection re-imports the last 30 days on demand, once every 10 minutes. On a busy zone, Cloudflare reports a sampled estimate, so totals are close to, not exactly, every request. Change versus the previous period appears on totals, agents, pages, and 404s once there is twice the selected range of history.

Demand signals are pages AI bots requested that returned a 404, with the bots that tried and when. They often point to broken internal links, outdated URLs that AI models still remember, or content AI expects you to have. Where a close match exists on your site, Rankscale suggests a redirect.

AI Visits is included on Pro, Pro+, Enterprise, and Agency Growth. Connect Cloudflare from the AI Visits section of any Brand to start.

Yes. You can try the Pro plan free for 7 days with a limited credit allowance, so you can explore AI Visits alongside Citations, Query Fanout, and the rest of Rankscale before committing. The trial converts to a paid Pro subscription only if you choose to continue, and you can cancel anytime from your account settings.